beggar | (noun) a pauper who lives by begging | Synonyms: mendicant |
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(verb) reduce to beggary | Synonyms: pauperise, pauperize |
(verb) be beyond the resources of | - |
beggarly | (adjective) marked by poverty befitting a beggar | Synonyms: mean |
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(adjective) (used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt | Synonyms: mean |
beggarman | (noun) a man who is a beggar | - |
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beggarweed | (noun) West Indian forage plant cultivated in southern United States as forage and to improve soil | Synonyms: Desmodium purpureum, Desmodium tortuosum |
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beggarwoman | (noun) a woman who is a beggar | - |
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beggary | (noun) a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) | Synonyms: begging, mendicancy |
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(noun) the state of being a beggar or mendicant | Synonyms: mendicancy, mendicity |
braggart | (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: big, boastful, bragging, braggy, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
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(noun) a very boastful and talkative person | Synonyms: blowhard, boaster, bragger, line-shooter, vaunter |
eggar | (noun) moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults; larvae feed on tree foliage and spin egg-shaped cocoons | Synonyms: egger |
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haggard | (adjective) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold | Synonyms: cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, pinched, skeletal, wasted |
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(adjective) showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering | Synonyms: careworn, drawn, raddled, worn |
haggardly | (adverb) in a haggard manner | - |
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jaggary | (noun) unrefined brown sugar made from palm sap | Synonyms: jaggery, jagghery |
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laggard | (adjective) wasting time | Synonyms: dilatory, pokey, poky |
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(noun) someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind | Synonyms: dawdler, drone, lagger, poke, trailer |
niggard | (noun) a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend | Synonyms: churl, scrooge, skinflint |
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niggardliness | (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness |
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niggardly | (adjective) petty or reluctant in giving or spending | Synonyms: grudging, scrimy |
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niggardness | (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardliness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness |
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sluggard | (noun) an idle slothful person | Synonyms: slug |
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